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The federal government had passed an act that designated the entire Great Plains as one enormous reservation, or land set aside for Native American tribes.
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The government changed its policy and created treaties that defined specific boundaries for each tribe.
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Most of the Cheyenne assumed they were under the protection of the U.S Goverment.
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The warrior Crazy Horse ambushed Captain William J. Fetterman and his company at Lodge Trail Ridge.
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The Sioux agreed to live on a reveration along the Missouri River, was forced on the leaders of the Sioux.
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General custer reported that the Black Hills had gold "frim the grass roots down," a gold rush was on.
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Kiowa and Comanche engaged in six years of raiding that finally led to the Red River War
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The Sioux and the Cheyenne held a sun dance , during which Sitting Bull had a vision of soldiers and some Native Americans falling from their horses.
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Dawes Act was made to "Americanize" the NAtive Americans. The act broke upthe reservations and gave some of the reservation land to individual Native americans---160 acres to each head of household and 80 acres to each unmarried adult. The government would sell the remainder of the reservations to the settlers.
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The Seventh Cavalry rounded up about 350 starving and freezing Sioux and took them to a camp at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The next day, soldiers demanded that the Native Americansgive up all their weapons. A shot was fired; from which side, it was not clear.
